Remote Lead SDET

Tria Federal delivers digital services and technology solutions that support the health and safety of veterans, service members and civilians. Today, we are pushing the boundaries of possibility through partnerships and investments in artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, developing solutions for the biggest challenges that government will face tomorrow.
We are proud to employ and support military veterans who bring mission-first mindset, technical expertise, and leadership qualities that strengthen our work. Veterans, transitioning service members, and military spouses are strongly encouraged to apply.
Lead Software Development Engineer in Test (Lead SDET)
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lead Software Development Engineer in Test (Lead SDET) with at least eight years of experience designing, developing, and maintaining automated testing solutions.
The Lead SDET will provide technical leadership in test automation, quality engineering, and continuous improvement. This individual will work as part of a collaborative Agile team that develops modern, standards-based, responsive web applications supporting mission-critical healthcare IT solutions.
The ideal candidate will be a hands-on technical leader who can establish automation best practices, conduct pull request reviews, mentor team members, and identify innovative tools and approaches that improve software quality and delivery efficiency.
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, or a related field.

• At least eight years of related software testing, quality engineering, or test automation experience.
• Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to delivering high-quality software.
• Ability to work effectively as a collaborative and proactive team member in an Agile environment.

Lead the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of scalable test automation frameworks.

• Establish and promote automation standards, coding practices, and quality engineering best practices across the team.
• Develop automation solutions using tools such as Selenium, Cypress, or Taiko, with Taiko experience preferred.
• Design and implement automated testing solutions for Angular-based web applications.
• Reviewpullrequests to ensure automated test code is maintainable, reusable, reliable, and aligned with established coding standards.
• Help team members resolve automation challenges and successfully contribute their work to the shared automation repository.
• Partner with developers during pull request reviews to identify test coverage gaps, potential defects, and opportunities to improve application testability.
• Lead proofs of concept and innovation initiatives involving new testing tools, artificial intelligence, continuous testing, and other emerging quality-engineering practices.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual testing through automation and process improvements.
• Integrate automated tests into continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines.
• Monitor automation results, troubleshoot failures, and improve the reliability and performance of the test suite.
• Support sprint planning, backlog refinement, release planning, defect triage, and production-readiness activities.
• Communicate testing progress, quality risks, automation results, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Advanced knowledge of test automation concepts, frameworks, design patterns, and industry best practices for web applications.

• Strong experience with Selenium, Cypress, Taiko, or comparable web automation tools.
• Experience developing automated tests for Angular applications.
• Strong SQL skills and knowledge of relational database concepts.
• Experience writing database queries or scripts for backend data validation.
• Experience with Git or another source-control platform, including branching, merging, and pull request workflows.
• Experience with API testing tools such as Postman, SoapUI, or similar tools.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with collaboration and work-management tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Microsoft Visio.
• Ability to analyze test results, investigate failures, and clearly document defects and technical findings.

Experience leading automation engineers or quality-engineering teams.

• Experience with performance, accessibility, security, or contract testing.
• Experience evaluating and implementing AI-assisted testing tools or other emerging quality-engineering technologies.
• Familiarity with cloud-based test execution, containerization, and test reporting platforms.

The company is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, with a primary office in Baltimore, Maryland, for employees who prefer to work on-site. With employees located across more than 40 states, many positions may also be performed remotely within the United States.
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